SEND Year 8 Teacher with Primary Training
Woodeaton Manor School, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX3 9TS23 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
28 February 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
22 January 2025
Job details
Job role
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Key stage
- Key stage 2, Key stage 3, Key stage 4, Key stage 5
Working pattern
- Full time: Permanent/Full-Time, 37 hours per week, term time only plus 5 INSET days and 10 other days to be worked as agreed
Contract type
- Permanent
Pay scale
- MPS M1 – M6 £31,650 - £43,607 + SEN 1, UPS £45,646 – £49,084 + SEN 1, dependent on experience.
Additional allowances
SEN 1 TLR 2
What skills and experience we're looking for
We are looking for:
Are you looking for a great challenge, with fabulous young people who deserve the greatest care and support?
We are seeking a SEND Year 8 Teacher to join us at WMS in our quest to provide the very best.
Woodeaton Manor School specialises in the education of pupils aged 11 to 16 with a range of SEND challenges, all of whom have an Education Health and Care Plan. Pupils within the school have a range of learning needs, many of whom have a diagnosis of ASC and associated needs. The school strives for high standards of teaching and learning and is committed to ensuring that all pupils achieve their full potential.
We are looking for a highly effective creative and inspirational classroom practitioner to join
Woodeaton Manor School, currently a foundation special school in Oxfordshire. The successful candidate will be a highly skilled teacher of SEND, ideally with successful experience of teaching both the KS2 and KS3 curriculum. They are likely to be primary trained with experience of teaching phonics, literacy, numeracy, and the wider curriculum.
You will be a dedicated, enthusiastic and motivated practitioner to ensure our students develop and reach their full potential.
The successful candidate will:
- Have previous teaching experience and skills of working with children across at least two key stages
- Have experience of working with children with complex special needs including ASD and LD
- Have QTS status
- Be willing to take responsibility for a class group as their class teacher
- Deliver subject specific lessons to a wider group of pupils across the school
- Be a team player
We can offer you:
- A commitment to support you in developing new skills through a wide range of professional development opportunities and experiences
- The opportunity to make a huge contribution to the education and lives of children who respond very positively to high quality teaching
- A dedicated leadership team committed to supporting our staff
You will offer us:
- A Teacher who is motivated and enthusiastic has experience of working with children with special needs.
- Your commitment to engaging and inspiring our pupils and the ability to make a real difference to their learning.
- Your flexibility, commitment and excellent interpersonal skills.
What the school offers its staff
A commitment to support you in developing new skills through a wide range of professional development opportunities and experiences
- The opportunity to make a huge contribution to the education and lives of children who respond very positively to high quality teaching
- A dedicated leadership team committed to supporting our staff
Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
Please download the application form using the link below, and once completed send to recruitment@woodeaton.oxon.sch.uk
CVs are not accepted.
Upload additional documents
If you need these documents in an accessible format, please contact the school.
About Woodeaton Manor School
- School type
- Academy, ages 7 to 18
- School size
- Up to 84 pupils
- Age range
- 7 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Woodeaton Manor School website (opens in new tab)
- Email address
- recruitment@woodeaton.oxon.sch.uk
- Phone number
- 01865558722
Welcome to Woodeaton Manor School. We are a daytime and residential Foundation Special School that offers a nurturing environment for 84 pupils. All our pupils have an Education Health and Care Plan (EHCP) and they have social, emotional and mental health difficulties. We are able to offer places for pupils in Key Stages 2, 3, 4, and 5.
Woodeaton Manor caters for a wide range of special educational needs, including the following diagnosed or described conditions:
Attachment Difficulty
Autistic Spectrum Disorder, including Asperger’s Syndrome
Dyspraxia
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Specific Learning Difficulties, i.e. Dyslexia
Speech and Language Disorder
Tourettes Syndrome
A large proportion of pupils have mental health issues and require extended support from a range of multi-professional services.
Woodeaton has extended its age limits twice since its re-designation. In 2009 Woodeaton established its Sixth Form provision and in June 2012, Woodeaton lowered the age limit to admit six Key Stage 2 age pupils who are taught in ‘The Nest’. Woodeaton also became a Foundation School on 1st April 2008.
Our school at a glance:
Woodeaton Manor School is the first school in Oxfordshire to be awarded the Quality Care Mark for Looked After Children (LAC) at an Outstanding level (January 2017). This mark demonstrates our school has excellent practice around those children in care and those caring for others.
Have a highly experienced and qualified staffing team
Provide high quality teaching and social experiences
Focus on personalised and individual needs of pupils
Work in a multi-professional way
Maximum class size of ten
High levels of staff support
In-house Educational Psychologist
A Readiness for Learning team who support pupils through interventions and/or outreach work. The team will also support pupils who might be struggling during the school day
Regular visits from an Occupational Therapist and a Speech and Language Therapist (one day a week and one day a fortnight respectively)
Provision of play therapy, if required
Regular whole school trips and residential experiences both in the UK and abroad
Specialist rooms for Art (including a kiln room), Food Technology, ICT and Science
Self-contained residential area for boys and girls
Excellent catering arrangements
Our school day starts at 8.20 a.m. every weekday and finishes at 2.30 p.m. every afternoon.
The total time in school for each pupil is 30 hours and 50 minutes.
Arranging a visit to Woodeaton Manor School
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@woodeaton.oxon.sch.uk.
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